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Tomi Ungerer

Tomi Ungerer (1931 - 2019) was active/lived in New York.  Tomi Ungerer is known for Children's book illustration, humorous genre, advertising art, posters.

"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019

Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87.

His death was announced on his website.

Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of a series of books he would write and illustrate about a family of pigs prone to going on adventures and getting into predicaments. (In the first book, they build an airplane, which crashes when it runs out of fuel, and that’s only the beginning of the tale.)

The Mellops books and others, with their quirky stories and simple but idiosyncratic drawings, stood out in the often uninspiring world of children’s books.

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